'Now is not the time for cold feet,' Palin says of Afghanistan

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Mercor, Oct 7, 2009.

  1. I agree
     
    #11     Oct 7, 2009
  2. I think I hear Dueling Banjo in the background. :D

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    #12     Oct 7, 2009
  3. Genau...

    Witness the number of chickenhawks in the Bush administration...

     
    #13     Oct 7, 2009
  4. Show nuff...

    Palin is a has ran...


     
    #14     Oct 7, 2009
  5. Palin can't handle questions from the press and she has balls?

     
    #15     Oct 7, 2009
  6. In 1987 I shook my head in amazement that we would support a theocracy represented by the Taliban: we should have been helping the Soviet Union.

    I began to feel that we should exit Afganistan about 2 years ago after initially supporting the effort. I felt that we NEVER should have been in Iraq (in fact Bush is a war criminal by any objective standard regarding that fiasco).

    Now the Sarah (who the fuck are you anyways) Palin is pressing for more troops, I KNOW that it is time to leave.
     
    #16     Oct 7, 2009
  7. Regardless of Bush's reasons (or lack thereof) for getting us into that mess, I suspect the military doesn't want to pull out and look defeated... as did the Russians.

    Apparently we are willing to risk and spend virtually ANYTHING to save face... :mad:

    Fact... America cannot afford to be "policeman to the world". We can't fight for and pay for freedom for everyone.

    We should withdraw ALL troops from around the world and have them guard US borders if necessary. Would save us $1Trillion/yr defict.
     
    #17     Oct 7, 2009
  8. Ricter

    Ricter

    We went into Iraq to create a forward base. We went into Afghanistan to hunt al qaeda. Even as a leftist I don't think it's necessary to read anything unusual or sinister into it.
     
    #18     Oct 7, 2009
  9. maxpi

    maxpi

    Nothing bugs these libtards here like Sarah Palin.. they are afraid of somebody like her,. she is clear and outspoken and energizes the Conservative base... they thrive on muddled thinking, that's how we get all these unfunded mandates that are guaranteed to destroy the country... I guess they still think that when the smoke clears and the dust settles that SOCIALISM WILL REIGN... LOL... these ideas of theirs were started way back in the day when people thought that the USSR was the light of the world and all the reports from inside the Soviet Union by communists traveling there were glowing stories of happiness and freedom.... IDIOTS... the Soviet Union fell, it was a shithole of death, oppression, disease, poverty and misery...

    Personally I don't care if we pull out of anywhere at all.. we've punished the ME enough for them to get the message that we can and will go there and do that.. why we bother to try to do nation building there is beyond me...
     
    #19     Oct 7, 2009
  10. I consider myself to be a paleoconservative (ala Pat Buchanan, NOT a neocon)

    And I'm no Obama fan by any stretch

    But Palin is an intellectual LIGHTWEIGHT

    And she just bugged out on her job when the going got tough - make any excuse you like, no matter how justified, and those factors would be there for her as president-ette

    She doesnt have what it takes to go the distance

    The GOP needs to come up with better people fast (and I hope they do) or they're just plain done

    The republicans have done a SHIT job by conservative standards, it's no time to coast on the same old BS. The 'goodwill' toward the party in the base is razor thin.
     
    #20     Oct 7, 2009